{"id":8258,"date":"2024-04-27T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2024-05-03T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:04:31","slug":"r10-solar-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2024\/04\/r10-solar-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"R10 Solar Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a tremendously long hiatus, I finished production and released my latest micro-rocket kit: The R10 MX Solar Warrior<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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R10 Solar Warrior<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a 38% downscale of an Estes kit from the early to mid ’90s that I loved the look of but never actually owned.<\/p>\n

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R10 kit contents.<\/p><\/div>\n

A considerable part of the delay was simply settling on a paint scheme I really liked. Eventually it hit me that it should be a tribute to Ukraine and my Ukrainian friends & colleagues. There’s some literary connection there in that Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of sunflowers and sunflower products. From there it took a while for inspiration to hit and the scheme you see here to develop. As a bonus, the R10<\/em> works well visually with the American-themed R5 MX Hawkeye<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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BFFs Solar Warrior and Hawkeye.<\/p><\/div>\n

Given the tiny size, the only realistic way to enable most people to replicate that fin pattern was to do a print sticker. That’s as opposed to a spray mask or layers of vinyl. That in turn meant though that I had to either significantly increase the precision of my kiss cutting or have people do so themselves. The latter would be reasonable for these shapes, sizes, and quantities, but I went for the first one. That in turn introduced more delay and demotivation as I had to swap out cutting equipment, develop new templates, establish new parameters, and so on toward overhauling the workflow. The end result was worth it though.<\/p>\n

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The original prototype from early 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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